Like A Girl | Pointlessly Gendered 

Women's parking spaces were originally introduced in 1990 in Germany to improve women's safety and reduce the risk of sexual assault. This was formulated because women felt at risk in parking garages which were often dark and deserted. After Germany, places like South Korea and China also adopted this policy.

"Tire his mouth out with some meat" could also be in r/suddenlygay

What annoys me most about the "loves bugs" thing is that that's not a bug; snails are mollusks

15:36 side tangeant, but I hate the fact that the woman's face is cropped out. The inherent misogyny in viewing women's bodies as the object of desire rather than the person just gives me major ick. Why does the man's face get to be part of the sexy photo, but the moment we vaguely humanise a woman she loses appeal? Yes, I'm reading too much into it, but it just bugged me. Thank you for coming to my TEDtalk

They can gender a soap, but lord forbid I ask them you use my correct pronouns 🙄

"Cowpoke." Cowpoke is the gender-neutral term for cowboy/cowgirl.

as a guy, everyone should use women's shampoo and conditioner, its so much better oml 😭😭 LET THE BROS HAVE LUSCIOUS LOCKS GOD DAMNIT

Saw a dad buying sewing supplies for his son, who apparently wanted to learn how to sew “like grandma”. I expected the dad to steer him to more masculine pursuits, but his only objection was that he didn’t want his son to buy supplies grandma already had and could share with him. Wholesome moment.

I work in a public library and noticed that the people who check out "Code Like A Girl" the most are fathers trying to encourage their daughters to try new things.

Do not use scented shampoo for dogs. They don't care whether or not you use the bottle with the little girly eyelashes dog or the more boyish one. They do, however, care whether you smear them with smelly chemicals. Dogs have sensitive noses and use scents to communicate; from my experience, they absolutely HATE the smell of citrus as well.

My dog doesn’t care if I say “good girl” or “good boy” he just hears “good” and gets all excited and happy.

21:40 that’s hobby lobby (like hobbycraft) an arts and crafts carrier in the USA that is known for its conservative Christian culture (closed Sunday, sued for excluding women’s health care for employees over birth control, denied trans employees access to bathrooms, etc). That’s a gun toilet paper / loo roll holder. ‘Murica

The Zootopia meme is missing a key thing - the baby is gonna be named after the bunny. I think it's mainly due to her saving her life. The bunny thinks it really sweet.

15:09 I had this toy as a kid! Basically it's just a cheap plastic megaphone with a voice synthesizer. "Boy" makes your voice come out deeper, "girl" makes it come out high pitched like you just inhaled helium, and "robot" is a robot voice.

16:24 I looked up the "code like a girl" book and it seems like Jamie was right about his assumptions. seems like a book to show that anyone can get into coding no matter what gender and teaches you how to do coding stuff

the worst part about the girl/boy dog shampoo is that dogs hate the smell of citrus 😭

9:40 Godzilla is inherently queer because people are scared of them as they take up more and more space.

6:20 this reminds me of getting in to an argument (shortlived, swiftly blocked) with someone who decided to bring transphobia to a reel of a tomcat who happened to be wearing a pink collar and claw caps 😬 she was adamant that the cat MUST be a girl because it was wearing pink, even though the owner had said it was male. And then went off on one about trans people, topping it off with a side serving of racism! Wild.

As someone in the tech field; I actually quite like the Coding like a Girl idea if that's a book teaching and inspiring young women to get into the field. I would love that book to have example of amazing women in the field too. It's hard for girls to think they can do things if they only see men doing said things so I'm all for encouraging them.

"Sounds like a masculine thing to MURDER PLANTS" ICONIC 😂😂

“Drinks tea?” “That’s just British.”

I had the “daring book for girls” as a kid and it was basically just kid cultural stuff like jump-rope rhymes but also how to climb a tree. It felt like the girlscouts in a way. A bit more feminine than the Boy Scouts, but something that was comfortably gendered so it could try to diversify what guides are available to girls I guess? Some of it was very “playground and sleepover girls stuff” but other parts were like “a way to learn how to carve a whistle without getting bullied for reading “boy books” if that makes sense? It might seem a bit dated now but it was a really big deal to the girls in my class when it came out because it had so much stuff in there, and it was for girls! A book with girly stuff that also had more “boy” stuff, but now you can do it too! Not just because “it’s girly now” but also because some of those skills weren’t usually taught to most girls and it was harder to get lessons for it than it often was for boys. Now we have the internet and all that, but this was still when your family would have the one shared computer and kid social media was stuff like club penguin and neopets (which were probably a better idea than giving kids instagram tbh) I, personally, was a webkins kid

I have code like a girl it's a great book about pushing back against stereotypes in a male-dominated industry. It's got heaps of information about influential women in programming and it's certainly not pointless.

9:31 - 10:20 In the 1998 film, Godzilla lays a bunch of eggs, which means the character is female in that continuity. Also, yes, Godzilla, is a reptile.

I just thought Godzilla and Mothra were a lesbian monster power couple.

I, a cis woman, would love those jerky hearts and bacon bouquets. I'm diabetic, so Valentine's sweets don't work too well. They're missing a huge market of non-men who are diabetic or doing high protein or keto diets.

I worked retail and a woman asked where the shavers were and wanted a specific brand. I showed her one in that brand because most other types were sold out. But the one left was 'for men'. She barked "Do I look like a man?" and walked out. Like, lady, nobody cares what razors you use.

Nonbinary person here! You're right! We're always forgotten 😭

Code Like a Girl was written by one of the authors of The Daring Book for Girls. I suspect this was a response to The Dangerous Book for Boys (which, in my opinion, is pointlessly gendered). Her books are about encouraging girls to be more adventurous, curious, and brave. I can totally get behind this, so I expect that Code Like a Girl is intending to push back on the phrase "like a girl"being used as an insult.

I agree with your assessment about the Code Like A Girl book. I'm a woman and a software developer, and getting young women interested in coding and STEM in general is so important and very much needed. The "code like a girl" movement is definitely about empowerment and reclaiming "like a girl," just like you said.

14:23 I heard “am I autistic? I used to be” and was very confused for a moment lol

As a non-binary person... I'd love to not be forgotten but still I don't really want those people thinking about me.

My late grandpa had broad Glaswegian accent, was a builder and had a medals for his service in WW II. He also loved baking cakes and growing veg and flowers in his garden and loved flowers and plants generally and did not care what anyone thought about it (and as far as I know, no-one ever said owt about it neither 😅)

I recently went to a conference for women in industrial careers and we went on a tour of a plant beforehand and we were given steel toed shoes for the tour. They were leopard print on the outside and pink on the inside. Like why cant we just have normal steel toed shoes 😔

27:51 I think the “joke” here is that when women take a bath, we wash off our makeup, so we look “worst”. Possibly also that our jobs aren’t as difficult, so we’re not disheveled after work the way men are?

28:26 - German here: Women's parking spaces *don't officially exist* in the traffic law code. These parking spaces are found in well-lit and surveilled areas, and near exits. A 1990s study/survey found that female drivers felt unsafe on parking garages at night, hence private businesses started plopping these parking spaces down.

The women parking spaces are for womens safety to stop sexual assault but some of them turned into spaces where ppl with kids can park

I love how every time square space sponsors him Jaime is like "actually I'm starting another totally real ambitious project"

As a cisgender woman, I say we should really stop gendering things/products.

When I played softball growing up, my dad would tell me to stop throwing “like a girl” and when I’d snap back at him with a “I AM a girl,” he’d say “you need to throw like an athlete” 😑 took me years to realize what BS that was

Jamie: "I will never do Elf on the Shelf." Me, having survived three kids fighting over the whole Elf thing for many Christmasses because MIL just had to buy us one: You are a wise man, Jamie.

2:50 fun fact my cishet guy friend regularly makes jokes about like. How his hair went curly when he got his period, he can’t remember when he got his last one and OH NO AM I PREGNANT and he also wears dresses sometimes. Mostly to piss off his hyper conservative parents. And because his little sister is queer and it cracks her up.

Its funny how many times I've been told, "Stop doing those things, they make you too manly," but when i come out, the same people go. "You'll never be a man: Bruh

I will never stop mentioning that one Ad that had a Dishwashing Liquid ‘just for men’ and it’s basically dishwashing liquid in a black bottle.

As far as treating kids differently: I would not treat my kids differently automatically based on gender. However, if my kids asked for something different, obviously I would respect their boundaries. The only benefit of the doubt I could give the dad playing with his kids is if his daughter asked for more gentle drops, and he complied with her preference.

The absolute stink that got raised when I bought my male cat a pink harness and his brother got a green one with rainbows and a tiny, cute bow on the back. They’re cats. They have no concept of gender and these were the cheapest options. Besides they’re both allies.

I want to see a book on how to "Weld like a girl". According to my dad, women make better welders because they have steadier hands. It was just an observation from what he'd seen.

I’m dying at the meat bouquet. It’s so stupid that I almost want it. 😂

My mom, 90 years old, has long maintained that when she was a girl, pink was for boys here in the US of A.

For decades, my family has had a 2 day annual family event where one day they have the women cook breakfast and another day they have the men cook breakfast. And that's how they separate it. By gender. Recently, I suggested we use literally any other way to ensure we have enough people cooking each day. No one listened. So I've decided if I ever have a family member who comes out as nonbinary, they get a free pass to not help cook. And if anyone tries to guilt them for not helping, they can be like "well, you don't have a day for me so therefore I don't have to cook."

Me watching the ad and not skipping it because of the adorable Ginny pigs getting their hair done 😂 so cute

“Loves bugs” Shows a SNAIL 😂

Drinks tea - "thats just british" 😭😂 Also it's care-uh-bean-er (USA pronunciation)

My wife works with a number of computer science orgs that are called something like code like a girl/girl code/or something because over the low numbers of women in computer science. My wife's company is one of the best in the field for demographics. 32% of programmers are not men. She always jokes that to get ahead in the computer industry as a woman, everyone had to think she was a man for the first 15 years of her working life. (She's trans)

Your square space ads always make me smile, they're so silly

"This Valentine's Day tire out his jaw-" I will baby, I will.

The zootopia one, the last 2 images are the pregnant shrew saying "I'm gonna name her Judy" and the rabbit finding it sweet since her name is Judy. I guess it's about being a girl's girl and general positivity between women

1:57 The last two frames have the shrew saying that she’s gonna name the baby Judy, after Judy the rabbit police officer, because she saved her life and complimented her

You are right Jamie, Code like a girl, is in the positive vibe, making coding more accessible for women. My (now grown up) daughter read that book for a small class in uni last semester (she is part time studying to become an electrical engineer), as a part of the "getting more women into male dominant occupation"-agenda. (She works as a certified electrician while she studies)

Fun fact, the first people who coded were women, and unfortunately, I lost the source, but up to mid-1970, computer science wasn't gendered, it started when publicists associated computer games with boys.

“My jam making business is on pause.” So you’re saying that this time, you were not the Jammidodger but the Jammidodged. 😎

The Buscopan one reminds me of a case in Australia where the pain relief drug brand Nurofen had a line of products with different packaging for period pain and migraines etc. But it was the exact same medicine inside, sold for a higher price, and they got fined for deceptive practices and ordered to remove the products.

4:54 - You’ve got it all wrong, Jamie. The biscuits for boys have dresses and the biscuits for girls have trousers because obviously only boys can like girls and girls can like boys. We wouldn’t want to be promoting *gayness* now, do we? 🙃

fellas, is it gay to listen to music?

Original Godzilla in Japanese films was gender neutral ‘it’, later English dubs use male pronouns, and at one point Godzilla lays eggs through parthenogenesis but in the same film referred to as male. So… who the f knows?

5:04 Since dogs are mostly dependent on their nose for tracking their world, I'm totally sure they just love scented shampoo *Kappa*

I've been making a living as a programmer for close to 40 years. But for most of my working life I've been the only woman on the team.

my husband would be so sad if i didn't get him chocolate for valentine's day...

"Meat Bouquet" sounds like a euphemism for something lol

Code like a girl is very much the same as the sanitary company you've mentioned. As well as this book, it's a programme developed to get more diversity in STEM fields 🧡 it's really active in New Zealand and Australia. You should check out some of their ads 🤣 they're hilarious and call out some ridiculous concepts of femininity such as "I can't code cos I'm on my period"

As long as the dog shampoo takes away the smell of badger poo my dogs have rolled in I don’t care what it smells like and I have a male and female dog I’m not going to buy 2 different types.

The women's parking spaces in Germany are supposed to be for women shoppers protection and are closer to the shops and on site security, the hope is that men won't assault women in the shops parking lot if they are likely to get caught' yeah we live that kind of world sadly.

To be clear, when it says that it shoots roll caps what it means is that you insert a rolled up slip of paper with impact sensitive powder at specific intervals. it doesn’t shoot anything out of the barrel all it does is hit the powder charge with the hammer and it makes a loud noise. I bought them as a kid in tombstone Arizona as a sort of novelty knickknack. It was a lot of fun, but I had a hard time getting my hands on the rolls after I ran out.

2:29 As a (cis) girl, I'm here to disprove that, because I don't understand that meme either😂😂

My brain couldn't accept the term "cowperson" without it sounding odd and I couldn't think of any neutral term for cowboy so eventually I just settled with cow. Just Cow. Toy guns for Cows.

15:56 I actually had The Daring Book for Girls as a kid! If I remember correctly, it had tutorials for stereotypically “manly” activities like outdoor games and basic construction, as well as a section on starting your own business. It definitely kept me busy during the summer and I had a lot of fun with it back then!

25:40 Yes, the pills are pink. Like aggressively pink. It's bizarre. Also they are usually cheaper for some reason.

As a (cis) woman in stem I hated coding until it was taught to me by a woman who made it way more approachable. The old white male professors I'd had before never actually started at the beginning and were really condescending and made me feel like it wasnt for me. Turns out I love coding. I had to click on this video to see what you were gonna say about the book it and I think you're spot on Jamie. Hopefully we can get to a place where we don't need extra encouragement for women in stem but we aren't there yet.

a true cowpoke gets one cowboy gun and one cowgirl gun

swiss here: we also have women parking spots. it's to feel more secure, because there are many aggressions in parkings during the night.

16:16 yes, that’s the coding book vibe. She’s great.

9:10 Make bow ties, I think they’d be cute •u•

The Parking spaces for women - Usually they are in well lit areas, monitored with cameras, and near security - all designed for safety purposes. Much like women only train cars.

Im a buff guy and yesterday i did a full face of makeup. Complete with eyeliner. Gender abolition is fun

Cis man here and I got 15 of those bingo card entries so you're doing pretty well lol. It's all the music I listen to, definitely makes me feminine!

for the abdominal cramp medication the ONLY thing i would think would justify that is if the "venus" ones were designed for period cramps but as we know companies in general are allergic to even mentioning periods

Re: the toilet doors. The MOST Shapely buns I've ever seen were on a man. Like, this dude looked like he was smuggling hams in his jeans. Just the most perfectly perky butt I have ever seen. Dog shampoo scents - I like my dogs to smell like vanilla. Left to their own devices, they (both female) would prefer to smell like corn chips and chicken poop.

As a German, I've never heard of these "women parking spaces" personally. But I've looked it up and the spaces designated for women apparently have better lighting as well as cameras and are located near the exits, so it's a security thing. Nevertheless, they are also generally wider, to "prevent accidents and make car trips with children easier" which just reinforces stereotypes. Also, it's not like men don't need security.

So, with the Code Like A Girl, its in the series where basically they show great accomplishments of women, like bed time stories for rebel girls where its a boon full of success stpries of women who made a big impact, its meant to be impowering, all of that! I used to read from those books when i was younger.

A few months ago I have ordered a 1kg bag of nutritional yeast from a local company, and it called "Bro Foods" lol. I mean I guess they were trying that "backwards psychology", cause vegan products are "not manly".

beard trim looks nice 🔥

Jammi, the light has your skin looking amazing and peachy. And the light brown top brings out your warm tones. So handsome! I love u ❤❤❤🙇🏻‍♀️🙇🏻‍♀️🙇🏻‍♀️

For the zootopia meme: judy not only saved the shrew but was consistently kind to her in hard situations, which not only saved judy and nick from the mob (the shrews father was a mob boss) but the shrew named her baby after judy. So i believe its saying even the smallest acts of kindness can stick with someone forever and impact their lifes enough to cause big change and mean something deep to the person you were kind too. ❤

Godzilla is literally a female in canon.

10:49 AROACE FLAG let's gooooooooooo

16:39 Something I have noticed is that a lot of newer programming books will almost exclusively use "She" when talking about a generic person, either the reader or a possible user of a program. I think it's a conscious effort to try and make women feel more comfortable and accepted as programmers. I don't need this book to use masculine pronouns to make me feel accepted when reading it but I can see how having a bunch of "He"s thrown at them could discourage women who already might feel unwelcome.

Code Like a Girl is a campaign to encourage more women in STEM and computer science in particular. Part of these campaigns is to show that coding is used in all kinds of things not just traditionally masculine things. Not sure about the book but the organization who runs the Code Like a Girl event is a good organization. I'm saying this as a woman in STEM who does STEM outreach with high school students, but hasn't worked with that particular organization.

My male dog will happily answer to good boy or good girl - he just knows he is all the good things 😂 he also really enjoys pink things especially if they are ball-shaped or edible 🤣Dogs transcend gender 😂

Godzilla has canonically laid eggs. So we can be sure its at least biologically female. As for their gender, I belive the lady who was telepathically linked to him refered to him as he and i would like to think she was respecting his gender rather then being a terf. Edit: the eggs were laid in the 1998 movie i belive, dont remeber if he had any other children, but probably safe to say he can lay eggs asexually much like the jesus lizard.

carabiner = ca - rah - been - er :) edit: as a cis-female who did study comp sci at uni, I agree with the code like a girl thing - it IS needed, I think in my entire year it was _maybe_ 10% female/female presenting with the rest being male/male presenting. I also saw a number of those female/presenting people get discouraged by the male/presenting people and drop the course (this included male/presenting tutors giving higher scores to male/presenting students). Misogyny is still rife in the tech world (both software and hardware) and it needs to stop. there's also code first girls which is along the same lines (social enterprise in the uk to encourage female/presenting people to get into coding)